People ragging on the generals for either being willing to sacrifice people's lives by "letting" the jailbreak happen in order to cast the line for bigger fish, or being incompetent at preventing the deaths that took place in the prison during the jailbreak.
That's a failure between expectation and execution. Much like how Jing Yuan is supposed to be smart (based on how others talk about him), but his actions as the writers plotted out for him don't reflect political savviness at all. That doesn't mean Jing Yuan, the character, is bad at politics. It means the writers are shit at writing politics and don't know how to write actions that are actually politically savvy.
But on the specifics of Jing Yuan's attitude toward casualties, both his personal story and NPC dialogue praise him for winning without shedding blood and caring for lowly soldiers like they're his own son. Jing Yuan supposedly stayed in the position of Cloud Knight general for 721 years when most can't last past a century without dying. So I would say the set up for JY is someone who values keeping people alive.
Er... it's not like Jing Yuan hasn't met Phantylia in person, or that the Xianzhou hasn't talked to other Lord Ravagers in the past and observed their work.
This presumes what we've seen is the worst that can happen. Which is unlikely. Phantylia is obviously the tip of a much bigger iceberg. Since the story is hinting at much bigger conflicts and what not, it's too early to assume Phantylia is as bad as it can get.
Hoolay was already captured at that point? There's no lives lost?
In the case of the Marshal, temptation to use Hoolay would cause deaths, those are the lives she's weighing against the potential headache of Foxians complaining about not getting to be the ones to execute (unkillable) Hoolay.
In the case of whatever Taoran might be implying, well the specifics are unclear but the general vibe of the threat is pretty obvious.
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That's a failure between expectation and execution. Much like how Jing Yuan is supposed to be smart (based on how others talk about him), but his actions as the writers plotted out for him don't reflect political savviness at all. That doesn't mean Jing Yuan, the character, is bad at politics. It means the writers are shit at writing politics and don't know how to write actions that are actually politically savvy.
But on the specifics of Jing Yuan's attitude toward casualties, both his personal story and NPC dialogue praise him for winning without shedding blood and caring for lowly soldiers like they're his own son. Jing Yuan supposedly stayed in the position of Cloud Knight general for 721 years when most can't last past a century without dying. So I would say the set up for JY is someone who values keeping people alive.
This presumes what we've seen is the worst that can happen. Which is unlikely. Phantylia is obviously the tip of a much bigger iceberg. Since the story is hinting at much bigger conflicts and what not, it's too early to assume Phantylia is as bad as it can get.
In the case of the Marshal, temptation to use Hoolay would cause deaths, those are the lives she's weighing against the potential headache of Foxians complaining about not getting to be the ones to execute (unkillable) Hoolay.
In the case of whatever Taoran might be implying, well the specifics are unclear but the general vibe of the threat is pretty obvious.